Avery Recants

On the witness stand in the trial of the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and former teacher Bernard Shero – who are accused of raping the same 10-year-old altar boy at St. Jerome’s parish in Northeast Philadelphia – Avery testified that he only pleaded guilty to avoid a longer prison term.

“Real Love involves real hatred: whoever has lost the power of moral indignation and the urge to drive the sellers from the temples has also lost a living fervent love of Truth” F.S. ps I am praying that Jesus be your Simon to help you carry your cross in life no matter what that maybe. He is helping me carry mine at this very moment.Peace.

Does anyone remember an article from last year stating that other victims of Avery had come forward? Outside the time of prosecution because of the statutes but a handful of other victims? I will try to locate that. Well from this blog post and all the other info on Avery,nothing is surprising. His testimony will impact this trial but as the article implies, much more ramifications for the Lynn conviction.

This is sickening. As if this poor young man has not been through enough Hell, he now has to put up with all three of these monsters lying about what they did to him. How much should a person have to endure? Hopefully, the jury will believe him and not them. Hopefully, they’ll realize that the idea of Billy making this all up is preposterous, but that these men lying is extremely believable. I continue to be astounded, yet not surprised, by the evil within these men.

Disillusioned: I feel the same as you feel. Knowing Billy has to see his offenders and listen to their lies is terrible, and I feel, for Billy, Rich, and all the victims, my heart aches with pain. The priests, ex-priests, bishops, cardinals, pope are not men of God, they do not represent Jesus, Our Lord, they represent the lowest of the low, the evil one, who is alive and well on this earth.
I know priests who are just as upset as myself, and I am trying to understand why they do not speak out…….
Denise

As I sat through the attempted couched lies avery tried to provide I wanted very hard to understand why a person accused of crimes he denies committing would agree to plead out even though the previous crimes were barred by the SOL, I know Avery is not a altruist, narcissistic maybe. It was shocking to hear Avery claim he was indigent even though he admitted that he bought a house for a dollar and sold it for a million, I certainly could enjoy that type of poverty. The denials by Avery to questions put fort by the prosecutor were in fact admissions. It is clear that Avery who is seventy years old is just someone who believes that the abuse of his victims was just horseplay, very sad for a man of his advanced age with not much life left to be in denial, I hope the creator does NOT have mercy on his soul ! I also wonder if Avery is an heir to the stationaries and if he receives renumeraton or royalties

Oh my God, I just read the blog that Kathy Kane highlighted from March of 20l2. It is Avery’s history with children, etc. Billy Doe certainly wasn’t his only victim. Absolutely disgusting that this man could lie again at today’s trial and cast doubt on Billy’s testimony. Can the prosecutors in this case bring up this history thta was introduced at Lynn’s trial? I sure hope so. It will show the jury what a liar this creature is.

If we can accept it was done for expediency, we can believe anything.
What a mentality!!!
I’m damned sure I wouldn’t acccept anything I wasn’t responsible for!
There’s no laurels to receive in connecting it to the Sufferings of Christ either considering he’s an”indian giver”.

Say you are accused of sexually abusing a child. You are being brought to trial. You did not do it. For real, you did not do it. You can risk failing to prove you did not do it at your trial or you can take a plea deal, serving less time than if you fail to prove you did not do it at your trial. Eee gads. You’re a pew sheep, so you take your dilemma to your parish priest. “Bless me, Father, I did not do it. Do I risk the trial or take the plea deal?”

“There is nothing lower on the food chain than a pedophile.” (A comment posted to a story about the abuse and cover up in the LA archdiocese.)

Joe, no amount of skepticism regarding the justice system would compel an innocent person to plead guilty to child sexual abuse and cop a plea deal. Put yourself in the shoes of an innocent person charged with being a pedophile. Every fiber of your being– the totality of your mind, your conscience, your heart, your soul, and your spirit– would fight to dispute such a repugnant claim.

It’s more than just idle skepticism about the Philadelphia justice system vis-a-vis the Catholic Church. Take a careful read over Ralph Cipriano’s recent posts (www.bigtrial.net) and wait for the outcome of this trial.

You’re absolutely right about the ‘totality of one’s being disputing such a repugnant claim’ – – this is what Ed Avery did last week.

Joe, the jury will decide this case and I have been following the blogs on the Big Trial, always well done. Even the Avery/Lynn conviction could be affected by this trial testimony in some ways. You do realize though that Avery was on the top of the guilty section of the shredded memo for the abuse of (James) Bob who has commented on this site. The Church believed Bob although of course Avery was cycled around before finally being defrocked in 2006…so you do realize this? Avery, who was already found guilty of abuse by the Church,then plead guilty to the abuse of another child,has now reversed himself. I am just wondering what kind of faith you put in that person?

(From the Huffington article in Kate’s post)…”In the Big Apple, Timothy Dolan has cultivated a happy Irishman image that has won-over much of the public, Catholic and non-Catholic alike…”
(Jerry Slevin comments below the article) “…Please don’t blame Dolan on the Irish and I won’t blame his mentor, Rigali, on the Italians. Blame them both instead on an unaccountable Vatican that President Obama must promptly join Australia’s bold Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in subjecting to the rule of law. Children deserve no less..”

Lol. So at least there’s ONE New Yorker who hasn’t been won over by his fake-Irish archbishop’s leprechaun act.

It’s what we have to work with. But can you imagine Jesus being directed to cop a plea and sell out his integrity? I’m NOT suggesting Avery is anything near Jesus. Or that he’s innocent. I just can’t imagine the directive from a person of faith being, “hey, lie if you have to to save your own hide.”

What kind of priest is that??

As far as Dolan…he’s always been slippery. It’s just nice to see it in print to share with the world. Hide, evade, lie. What a pathetic human being, as Kate worded it.

“According to two sources, however, the prosecution had asked the judge if Lyman could testify about an incident where his priest cousin had allegedly attempted to have sex with him. The judge, however, ruled against the request, and the witness was allowed to testify only as a reverse character witness.

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